One day twenty-year-old loner and weirdo Kyle Paxson sends texts to five of his former classmates at Midland High School asking them to meet with him. Only one replies, and she ends up raped, beaten and murdered with a crowbar… Read More ›
Immortality in YA Fiction
Someday
This book is a sequel to EVERY DAY by the same author. I have not read that but recommend others read it first before picking up SOMEDAY. In this book there are two characters who do not have bodies but… Read More ›
Otherearth
This book is the sequel (which I have not read) to OTHERWORLD by the same authors. I gamely started it anyway, expecting enough back story explanations to soldier on. By the time I reached Page 67, however, I had been… Read More ›
The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein
“To Be Weak Is Miserable” is the chapter heading that begins and totally summarizes this remarkable, fantastically-imagined literary-revisionist version of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s FRANKENSTEIN. Supposedly born to nobility but cast adrift when her mother dies and her father is imprisoned,… Read More ›
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